Written Answers Wednesday 3 August 2005

Scottish Executive

Children and Young People

Sarah Boyack (Edinburgh Central) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what physical area is designated as children’s play space in each local authority area.

Robert Brown: Each local authority decides on its own spatial standards for children’s play space in public areas, and each local authority will also make different requirements of developers. The National Playing Fields Association has produced the six acre standard for guidance on space standards.

Children and Young People

Sarah Boyack (Edinburgh Central) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was spent on the provision and development of children’s play space in each local authority area in the last year.

Robert Brown: This is a matter for each local authority. The information is not held centrally.

Civil Service

Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil service jobs have been relocated to each of Scotland’s cities in each year since 1999.

Mr Tom McCabe: The number of civil service jobs relocated to each of Scotland’s cities in each year since 1999 is set out in the following table.

  

 City
 1999
 2000
 2001
 2002
 2003
 2004
 2005


 Aberdeen
 
 57
 
 
 
 52
 


 Dundee
 
 
 
 
 
 30
 40


 Edinburgh
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 Glasgow
 160
 
 
 
 
 50
 


 Inverness
 
 
 
 
 10
 
 


 Stirling

Civil Service

Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of civil service jobs are located in each of Scotland’s cities, expressed also as a percentage of each city’s population.

Mr Tom McCabe: The head count number of permanent staff employed in the Core Departments of the Scottish Executive, Executive Agencies and Associated Departments, shown as a percentage of civil service jobs located in each of Scotland’s cities and also expressed as a percentage of each city’s population is provided in the following table.

  

 Percentage of Scottish Executive Civil Servants working in Scotland's cities


 
 % of Civil Servants
 % of Population


 Edinburgh
 47.0%
 1.8862%


 Glasgow
 12.5%
 0.3759%


 Dundee
 1.1%
 0.1304%


 Stirling
 2.2%
 1.1857%


 Inverness
 1.9%
 0.8302%


 Aberdeen
 3.4%
 0.3237%



  This does not include information on civil service posts within the government departments (e.g. HM Revenue and Customs) located in Scotland’s cities, which is not held by the Scottish Executive.

Discrimination

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to promote the issue of pregnancy discrimination among employers, with a view to ending such discrimination.

Allan Wilson: At an Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) Scotland event on 22 June 2005, the Minister for Communities welcomed the EOC’s research into pregnancy discrimination in the workplace and the recommendations contained within their report, specifically a three-step action plan for the Scottish Executive.

  We are liaising with our colleagues in the Department of Trade and Industry about their response to the EOC’s report at a UK level and with EOC Scotland and others about eradicating this discrimination and how to best engage with the business community in this task.

Employment

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many manufacturing jobs were created through inward investment in (a) Scotland, (b) the Scottish Borders and (c) East Lothian in each of the last eight financial years.

Allan Wilson: Scottish Development International does not keep records of how many jobs are created by individual inward investors in a given year. The published figures reflect the number of jobs which a company plans to create or safeguard at the time its decision to invest in Scotland was made. The published figures refer only to projects in which Scottish Development International and its partners can claim to have had a significant involvement in ensuring that the project takes place in Scotland. The following figures relate to projects where a company has made a decision to invest or expand and where the main activity of the project is manufacturing. Not all jobs created by a manufacturing project are necessarily manufacturing jobs.

  

 Year
 Planned New Jobs Associated With Manufacturing Projects


 
 Scotland
 Borders
 East Lothian


 1996-97
 7,673
 0
 0


 1997-98
 3,749
 65
 0


 1998-99
 4,380
 35
 0


 1999-2000
 5,901
 90
 0


 2000-01
 4,546
 135
 0


 2001-02
 1,235
 0
 0


 2002-03
 1,512
 0
 0


 2003-04
 536
 16
 0

Energy

Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the capacity was of each hydro-electric station in each year since 1999.

Nicol Stephen: This information is not held by the Scottish Executive.

Energy

Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the output from hydro-electric generating stations was in each year since 1999 (a) in total and (b) broken down by station.

Nicol Stephen: The requested information is not held by the Scottish Executive. The UK Government’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has collected statistics from generating companies in respect of total output across all hydro stations since 2000.

  Hydro output statistics for Scotland have been published in the September editions of the DTI "Energy Trends" publication, which may be found on the DTI internet site at: http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/inform/energy_trends/.

  Pumped storage hydro is excluded as the energy which is used to pump the water may not originate from renewable sources. Information is not disaggregated to the level of individual stations. This information is only held by the generating companies themselves.

Fair Trade

Marilyn Livingstone (Kirkcaldy) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in making Scotland a Fair Trade country.

Patricia Ferguson: Since the first meeting in May of the parliamentary cross party group on fair trade, which I chair, officials in the International Division have met with members of the Welsh Fair Trade Foundation to learn from Welsh progress in becoming a fair trade nation. Officials are currently working on a programme of action for Scotland which will be taken forward by MSPs at the next meeting of the cross party group.

Health

Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people suffer from myasthenia gravis, broken down by NHS board.

Lewis Macdonald: The majority of patients diagnosed with myasthenia gravis are likely to be admitted to hospital for diagnosis. An estimate of the prevalence of myasthenia gravis derived using hospital discharge information is shown in the following table.

  

 NHS Board of Residence
 Prevalence (estimated number of individuals)


 Argyll and Clyde
 74


 Ayrshire and Arran
 68


 Borders
 9


 Dumfries and Galloway
 28


 Fife
 57


 Forth Valley
 50


 Grampian
 89


 Greater Glasgow
 161


 Highland
 34


 Lanarkshire
 102


 Lothian
 133


 Orkney
 6


 Shetland
 10


 Tayside
 76


 Western Isles
 4


 All Scotland
 901

Health

Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to support those diagnosed with myasthenia gravis; what treatments are being offered to them by the NHS, and what research into the disease is taking place.

Lewis Macdonald: The Executive does not manage the care of people with myasthenia gravis directly. We would expect NHS boards to provide treatment and, with local authorities, support services based on their assessment of local needs.

  The treatment given for myasthenia gravis or any other any illness is a matter for clinical judgement based on the individual circumstances of each case. There is no cure for myasthenia gravis but the effects may be alleviated by drug treatments, and it is possible in some cases for the condition to be improved by surgical treatment. Treatment by plasma exchange or an infusion of intravenous immunoglobulin, both of which would require admission to hospital, may be given when the effects of the condition have become life-threatening.

  The National Research Register (NRR) records three ongoing studies and 28 completed studies on myasthenia gravis in the UK. Details of these projects are available from the NRR, a copy of which is in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 17404).

Individual Learning Accounts

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a list of the (a) learning providers who have enrolled in the new Individual Learning Account scheme, (b) number of learners that each provider has so far assisted and (c) organisations that have either refused to participate or withdrawn from participation (i) since the scheme started and (ii) compared with the original scheme.

Allan Wilson: There are currently 183 registered ILA Scotland learning providers, including further education colleges, higher education institutions, private and community-based learning providers. This includes a number of individual outreach learning centres formally registered under the aegis of a single learning provider. A full list of the currently registered ILA Scotland learning providers is available on the scheme website at: www.ilascotland.org.uk .

  Since the launch of the ILA Scotland low income funding offer in December 2004 over 10,000 learners have opened learning accounts. To date 3,500 learners have booked learning and 2,500 learners have begun learning with ILA Scotland assistance. It is not intended to publish information on the number of learners being assisted at the level of each individual learning provider as a matter of course, although information on the overall number of learners assisted by ILA Scotland will be provided on a regular basis via the ILA Scotland website.

  Learning providers are not individually invited to participate in the scheme. The registration process is open to any learning provider to apply provided they hold one or more of the specified quality standards. Registration is also subject to additional quality checks. It is for each individual learning provider to decide whether to submit an application to participate in the scheme. There have been two applications to date from learning providers which were withdrawn before they had formally completed the registration process.

  The eligibility criteria for learning providers to participate differ significantly between the first ILA scheme and ILA Scotland. The registration process for learning providers is considerably more rigorous and more restrictive for ILA Scotland than for the original scheme, taking full account of lessons learned regarding quality assurance requirements. This limits the number of potentially eligible learning providers. It is thus not possible directly to compare learning provider participation in ILA Scotland with the original scheme.

Justice

Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals found guilty of a crime in Scottish courts were sent to prison in each year from 1950 to 1997.

Cathy Jamieson: The available information is given in the table.

  Persons with a charge proved in Scottish courts given a custodial sentence(1)(2), 1950-1997

  

 Year
 Number


 1950
 5,765


 1951
 5,895


 1952
 6,583


 1953
 6,246


 1954
 5,955


 1955
 5,874


 1956
 6,446


 1957
 7,188


 1958
 8,244


 1959
 8,177


 1960
 7,043


 1961
 7,602


 1962
 7,798


 1963
 8,358


 1964
 8,433


 1965
 8,355


 1966
 9,386


 1967
 9,699


 1968
 10,672


 1969
 11,669


 1970
 12,832


 1971
 13,513


 1972
 12,646


 1973
 10,766


 1974
 11,566


 1975
 11,434


 1976
 10,633


 1977
 10,224


 1978
 11,171


 1979
 9,035


 1980
 10,641


 1981
 10,496


 1982
 13,421


 1983
 13,709


 1984
 13,761


 1985
 15,587


 1986
 15,345


 1987
 14,154


 1988
 14,496


 1989
 13,641


 1990
 12,969


 1991
 13,575


 1992
 14,595


 1993
 15,323


 1994
 16,091


 1995
 16,255


 1996
 16,923


 1997
 16,255



  Notes:

  1. Includes sentences to adult prison, young offenders institution, borstal detention/training (1950-1983), detention centre (1960-1988) and recalls.

  2. Persons counted once for each set of proceedings resulting in a custodial sentence.

Justice

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost of the crimes of (a) shoplifting, (b) domestic burglary, (c) non-domestic burglary, (d) theft from motor vehicle, (e) robbery, (f) fraud, (g) theft of motor vehicle, (h) stranger & acquaintance violence, (i) muggings, (j) murder, (k) culpable homicide and (l) death caused by driving that have taken place when motivated by drug use has been in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Cathy Jamieson: The information requested is not available.

Justice

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the share of the estimated cost of crimes by drug users was of crimes committed by the most offending 10% of offenders in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Cathy Jamieson: The information requested is not available.

Multiple Sclerosis

Rob Gibson (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many physiotherapists there are to treat multiple sclerosis sufferers in the Highlands and Islands and in which areas they are based.

Mr Andy Kerr: Information on the number of physiotherapists in NHS Highland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics at: www.isdscotland.org/workforce .

  Section F gives details of Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) employed in NHS Scotland. In particular, tables F1 and F2 show the whole time equivalent (WTE) and headcount number of physiotherapists, broken down by NHS Board. WTE adjusts headcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff. Latest available figures are at 31 March 2005.

  It is not possible to breakdown these figures by patient diagnosis.

  Physiotherapists are part of the AHPs staff group and are included in the Partnership Agreement commitment to increase the number of AHPs by 1500 by September 2007. We are on target to achieve such an increase if the current trends are continued by NHS employers.

NHS 24

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many calls to NHS 24 regarding access to an NHS dentist there have been in (a) total and (b) each NHS board in each month since 2002, broken down into (i) emergency, (ii) urgent, (iii) routine and (iv) other calls.

Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is detailed in the table: Number of calls to NHS 24 regarding access to an NHS dentist from May 2002 to June 2005 a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37184).

Olympic Games

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on which sporting events will take place in Scotland as part of the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Patricia Ferguson: Hampden Park will be used to stage several matches in the Olympic football tournament.

  Details of the venues to be used in the Games are contained in London 2012’s candidature file. Since the bid was submitted, the International Olympic Committee has decided to drop two sports (baseball and softball) from the 2012 programme and not to add in replacements.

Olympic Games

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will undertake an independent and detailed assessment of the costs and benefits to Scotland of the 2012 Olympic Games being hosted in London.

Patricia Ferguson: The Scottish Executive does not intend to undertake such an assessment at present when the event will not take place for seven years.

  The Scottish Executive will, however, aim to maximise the potential business, tourism, sporting and cultural benefits to Scotland which will arise from London hosting the Olympics; and will monitor and evaluate the economic and other impacts on Scotland of such an important event.

Pre-School Education

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many three and four-year-olds have been in pre-school education in each year since 1995 and, of these, what proportion have been in centres run by (a) local authorities, (b) the voluntary sector and (c) the private sector.

Robert Brown: The broad information requested is available since 1998-9, but only since 2002 by the management categories specified. Prior to 1998 many pre-school education providers were excluded from the school census and therefore data from those years are not comparable to the data presented here.

  

 Year
 3 year olds
 4 year olds
 3 & 4 years olds
 % in LA
 % voluntary
 % private
 % other


 2005
 41,392
 50,909
 92,301
 70
 10
 18
 1


 2004
 44,459
 54,355
 98,841 
 70
 11
 18
 1


 2003
 45,046
 55,608
 100,654 
 71
 11
 17
 1


 2002
 41,186
 54,068
 95,254
 73
 11
 15
 1


 2001
 39,107
 56,541
 95,648
 73
 27


 1999-2000
 28,406
 57,326
 85,732
 75
 26


 1998-99
 22,220
 54,240
 76,460
 79
 21

Pre-School Education

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the average ratio of qualified nursery teachers to children is in pre-school centres run by (a) local authorities and (b) the private sector.

Robert Brown: In January 2005 the ratio of nursery teachers to children in local authority pre-school education centres was 1:37. In private pre-school education centres the ratio was 1:69.

  These figures are taken from the Pre-school and Childcare Census 2005. The definition of nursery teachers used is "staff delivering pre-school education who are registered with The General Teaching Council for Scotland".

  The ratio represents the ratio of teachers to children registered at the centre – it does not represent numbers of teachers working with children at any one time.

Pre-School Education

Mr Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to assist low-income families in meeting the cost of transport to rural nurseries.

Robert Brown: Section 37 of the Standards in Scotland’s Schools Etc. Act 2000 gives local authorities the power to provide transport, free of charge, to and from places which deliver pre-school education.

  It is for local authorities to decide how they wish to exercise this power.

Pre-School Education

Mr Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take action to stop Highland Council’s plans for the closure of rural nursery schools in Caithness and, if so, what action it will take.

Robert Brown: Local authorities have a statutory duty to provide pre-school education. Consideration of the pattern of provision needed to meet this duty in any particular area is a matter for the local authority.

Prison Service

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance the Scottish Prison Service provides to each prison’s management on night-time observational and monitoring procedures in relation to prisoner suicide watches, particularly where the person undertaking checks is unsure as to whether or not the prisoner on watch is asleep.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  None. Such matters are for Governors and their management teams to determine.

Prison Service

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15617 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005, why information on whether a registered mental health nurse was employed in HM Prison Kilmarnock cannot be provided, given that, under the terms of clause 49.1 of the minute of agreement between the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd, the SPS can provide information about the contract and the performance of the contractor if an enquiry is made from the Parliament, its members and officers, and whether it will now provide the information requested

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15616 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005, why information on how many registered mental health nurses are employed at HM Prison Kilmarnock cannot be provided, given that, under the terms of clause 49.1 of the minute of agreement between the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd, the SPS can provide information about the contract and the performance of the contractor if an enquiry is made from the Parliament, its members and officers, and whether it will provide the information requested

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-15572 and S2W-17045 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April and 14 June 2005, why information on the number of officers of HM Prison Kilmarnock dismissed for disciplinary offences cannot be provided, given that, under the terms of clause 49.1 of the minute of agreement between the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd, the SPS can provide information about the contract and the performance of the contractor if an enquiry is made from the Parliament, its members and officers, and whether it will now provide the information requested.

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15612 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005, why information on whether senior management from HM Prison Kilmarnock involved in the fatal accident report on the death of James Barclay are still in post cannot be provided, given that, under the terms of clause 49.1 of the minute of agreement between the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd, the SPS can provide information about the contract and the performance of the contractor if an enquiry is made from the Parliament, its members and officers, and whether it will now provide the information requested.

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15590 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005, why information on the training provided for HM Prison Kilmarnock officers on the completion of a reception risk assessment form cannot be provided, given that, under the terms of clause 49.1 of the minute of agreement between the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd, the SPS can provide information about the contract and the performance of the contractor if an enquiry is made from the Parliament, its members and officers, and whether it will now provide the information requested.

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15608 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005, why the information on the number of HM Prison Kilmarnock officers who have been disciplined for falsifying watch logs cannot be provided, given that, under the terms of clause 49.1 of the minute of agreement between the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd, the SPS can provide information about the contract and the performance of the contractor if an enquiry is made from the Parliament, its members and officers, and whether it will now provide the information requested.

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15609 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005, why information on the disciplining of HM Prison Kilmarnock staff on failure to carry out watches, given that, under the terms of clause 49.1 of the minute of agreement between the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd, the SPS can provide information about the contract and the performance of the contractor if an enquiry is made from the Parliament, its members and officers, and whether it will now provide the information requested.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  I refer the member to the question S2W-17676 answered on 7 July 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Prison Service

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what categories of prisoner are held at HM Prison Kilmarnock.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  Any male prisoner.

Public Appointments

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on when the draft code of practice for ministerial appointments to public bodies will be finalised and who is required to approve it.

Tom McCabe: Under section 2(4) of the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003, the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland must consult the Parliament and the Scottish Executive and invite other persons to make representations as part of her preparations for the Code. The actual arrangements for discharging this obligation and the date on which the Code will be finalised are both matters for the Commissioner.

Public Sector

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector IT projects costing over £1 million have been started in each year since 1999.

Mr Tom McCabe: The Scottish Executive does not hold a central repository of all public sector IT projects that have been started in each year since 1999 and the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The following figures refer specifically to IT projects approved by the Scottish Executive Information Systems Steering Group.

  There were 12 such projects started since 1999 as detailed.

  

 IT Projects costing over £1 million started since 1999


 Financial Year:
 1999-00
 2000-01
 2001-02
 2002-03
 2003-04
 2004-05


 Number:
 2
 1
 2
 3
 3
 1

Public Sector

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector IT projects costing over £1 million have been completed in each year since 1999.

Mr Tom McCabe: The Scottish Executive does not hold a central register of all public sector IT projects and therefore could only provide the information requested at disproportionate cost.This answer covers IT projects approved by the Scottish Executive Information Systems Steering Group.

  There were 10 such projects completed as detailed.

  

 IT Projects costing over £1 million completed since 1999


 Financial Year:
 1999-00
 2000-01
 2001-02
 2002-03
 2003-04
 2004-05


 Number:
 2
 1
 2
 1
 2
 2

Public Sector

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector IT projects costing over £1 million have been (a) completed within 10% of the original budget, (b) completed outwith 10% of the original budget and (c) abandoned in each year since 1999.

Mr Tom McCabe: The Scottish Executive does not hold a central register of all public sector IT projects and therefore could only provide the information requested at disproportionate cost. This answer covers IT projects approved by the Scottish Executive Information Systems Steering Group.

  Since 1999 eight IT projects costing over £1 million have been completed within 10% of the original budget; two completed outwith 10% of the original budget (both under-budget); and none abandoned.

  

 IT Projects costing over £1 million completed within/without 10% of budget


 
 1999-00
 2000-01
 2001-02
 2002-03
 2003-04
 2004-05


 (a) within 10%
 2
 1
 1
 1
 2
 1


 (b) outwith 10%
 0
 0
 1
 0
 0
 1


 (c) abandoned
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0

Public Sector

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector IT projects budgeted to cost over £1 million are currently in progress.

Mr Tom McCabe: The Scottish Executive does not hold a central register of all public sector IT projects and therefore could only provide the information requested at disproportionate cost. This answer covers IT projects approved by the Scottish Executive Information Systems Steering Group.

  Three Scottish Executive IT Projects budgeted to cost over £1 million are currently in progress.

Scottish Executive Ministers

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many mobile phones have been reported by ministers as (a) lost and (b) stolen in each year since 1999.

Mr Tom McCabe: The numbers of mobile phones that have been reported by ministers as (a) lost and (b) stolen in each year since 1999 are as follows:

  

 Mobile phones reported by Ministers as lost and stolen in each year


 Financial Year:
 1999-00
 2000-01
 2001-02
 2002-03
 2003-04
 2004-05


 (a) lost
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 1


 (b) stolen
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0



  These figures relate only to those phones procured through Scottish Executive contracts.

Scottish Executive Staff

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff were employed in each of its departments in each year since 1999.

Mr Tom McCabe: I refer the member to the question S2W-16288 answered on 12 May 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search .

Sport

Sarah Boyack (Edinburgh Central) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what physical area is taken up by golf courses in each local authority area.

Patricia Ferguson: The estimated physical area taken up by golf courses in each local authority area is shown in the following table. It should be noted that they do not include driving ranges or short "pitch and putt" type courses. The areas are in hectares and are calculated using the Scottish Executive Planning Advice Note No. 43 - Golf Courses and Associated Developments. Using that guidance, a set range is applied to calculate the minimum and maximum area of a course: for a 9 hole course (ie 20 - 30 hectares) and for a 18 hole course (ie 50 - 70 hectares). The table expresses the total hectare coverage as a minimum, maximum and average for all 9 and 18 hole courses in each local authority area.

  

 Council
 18 hole
 9 hole
 Total Min Area
 Total Max Area
 Ave Area


 Aberdeenshire
 29
 13
 1,710
 2,420
 2,065


 Angus
 16
 1
 820
 1,150
 985


 Argyll and Bute
 10
 18
 860
 1,240
 1,050


 City of Aberdeen
 11
 4
 630
 890
 760


 City of Dundee
 4
 1
 220
 310
 265


 City of Edinburgh
 22
 5
 1200
 1690
 1445


 City of Glasgow
 7
 2
 390
 550
 470


 Clackmannanshire
 3
 5
 250
 360
 305


 Dumfries and Galloway
 19
 12
 1,190
 1,690
 1,440


 East Ayrshire
 4
 4
 280
 400
 340


 East Dunbartonshire
 16
 1
 820
 1150
 985


 East Lothian
 17
 2
 890
 1250
 1070


 East Renfrewshire
 9
 0
 450
 630
 540


 Falkirk
 4
 2
 240
 340
 290


 Fife
 36
 12
 2,040
 2,880
 2,460


 Highland
 23
 21
 1,570
 2,240
 1,905


 Inverclyde
 5
 0
 250
 350
 300


 Midlothian
 4
 2
 240
 340
 290


 Moray
 12
 3
 660
 930
 795


 North Ayrshire
 17
 5
 950
 1,340
 1,145


 North Lanarkshire
 16
 2
 840
 1,180
 1,010


 Orkney Islands
 2
 1
 120
 170
 145


 Perth and Kinross
 23
 15
 1,450
 2,060
 1,755


 Renfrewshire
 9
 0
 450
 630
 540


 Scottish Borders
 13
 10
 850
 1,210
 1,030


 Shetland Islands
 2
 1
 120
 170
 145


 South Ayrshire
 16
 2
 840
 1,180
 1,010


 South Lanarkshire
 15
 7
 890
 1,260
 1,075


 Stirling
 6
 4
 380
 540
 460


 West Dunbartonshire
 4
 2
 240
 340
 290


 West Lothian
 9
 4
 530
 750
 640


 Western Isles
 1
 4
 130
 190
 160


 Totals (Scotland)
 384
 165
 22,500
 31,830
 27,165